Obama supporters to get VP announcement via text

Hi pia - since you asked I think...

Oh wait, I'm not a Hillary supporter.

McCain 08

Hellooo, anybody home?

You know, you Hillary supporters make me laugh and you make me cry, lol and boo hoo... really. You see the way you come off to me is that you are so resentful that the candidate 'you' chose has lost that you are not willing to sit down and have a nice little sensible talk with yourselves. You can show yourselves how completely ridiculous you are at this time in the race. It is over. The supers will not give the nom. to Hillary. Yes, I'm sorry that Hillary didn't win it because her supporters are hurt and I mean that even though I don't support her but that's the reality. It's best to accept that and do the right thing and support the nomine fo your party.... that is if you are loyal party members.

When is Obama's next speech??? I need a good laugh today!!

Great article regarding Mark Penn. Hillary paid his firm $2,963,802.00 in April. $1.00 out of every 6.00 was paid to him.

Clinton: Why it went so wrong
BY GLENN THRUSH | glenn.thrush@newsday.com
May 22, 2008

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/ny-usten0522,0,428812.story


Also has anyone seen the clip of Hillary speaking, she is wearing the light blue pants suit. The older gentleman behind her to the right is yawing repeatedly, scratching his head and picking his nose. It is absolutely hillarious. HardBall on MSNBC has been playing it and Jay Leno played it last night.

Any Other Reporters Out There Looking to Be Hired By Obama? Just Linda Douglass?

I don't begrudge Linda Douglass of National Journal her new job as "senior strategist and as a senior campaign spokesperson" with the Obama campaign. But an opportunity and an offer like this don't happen overnight. And so it's pretty likely that Douglas has been in at least casual talks with Team Obama about this for a while she was working for National Journal, covering the campaign. Even though I'm a skeptic on the concept of perfect objectivity in journalists ??? everybody has opinions about the people they cover ??? it strikes me as pretty tough for journalists to cover someone who they just had a job interview with, and who may hire them in the near future.

Douglas hosts a radio show on XM radio's all-politics channel, POTUS '08, on Fridays ??? er, I presume those duties will he handed to someone else. Her April 25 interview with Obama campaign manager David Plouffe seems sufficiently tough, but one has to wonder - had either side begun thinking about working together by then? Did the talks begin or pick up new steam as a result of that interview? (She says the offer came late last week.)

It doesn't help when she says upon being hired, "I've seen something I believe in," and "I saw that this could be a history-making presidency."

Because these sorts of hiring processes are done in secret for obvious reasons, we don't know if this is the only member of the media who interviewed for a position with Obama, and whether anyone else is interviewing with his campaign, or other campaigns. (Thinking out loud ??? could Team Hillary afford any new staff additions at this point?)

Next time a critic complains, "those reporters are writing like they want a job with the candidate"... it may not be hyperbole.

I would love a woman, who could take over in eight years. I would love John Edwards, but who I think he can be better used as Attorney General. Although I must say that I think Obama will create a real partnership with his VP...and I just think that may work better with a female. Anybody but Hillary Clinton, because I don't believe for a moment that she would be loyal to Obama's adminstration. I think she would do the wink-wink for all her time there and would always be planning for her next run. Anyhew, we need new female blood in that arena. Someone that reflects change and really smart change. Governor of Kansas, is a great consideration, she won a traditionally Republican state. Let's see women choose MccCain over Obama and his female vp positioned to run for President in 8 years. I say Biden might be under consideration for Sec. of State, but also Dashscle and Richardson. I would think it needs to be a woman. Unless he can get a really powerful guy who can help win without some of Hillary's psuedo Democratic women. I would love to vote for a woman for President in 2016.

Hillary won about 17 million votes ,close to half the total cast in this primary.If that does not make Obama offer VP position to Hillary I don't know what would.Just picking anothe female for VP is not even pandering,it is insulting to Hillary's supporters.

Just read this in the local paper - thought I would share :
Dear Abby,
I am a 60 tear old woman who is married to a man who acts like he hates me.In public, he pretends he loves me and talks how wonderful I am.But, in private he shakes his finger in my face and calls me the B word. He constantly tells me how ugly I am without make-up. I've tried everything, including a face lift, botox treatments, and a chin tuck.I even went on a diet and lost 20 pounds.

He quit his job a few years ago after having an affair with a woman in his office. He hasn't even looked for another job. We haven't slept together since I confronted him about the affair.He denied it, of course, but everybody knew it. It was humiliating. I believe he is still messing around.

While we both want to sell this house, we argue constantly about when to put it on the market. The house we want will be available in a few months.

My husband wants to put our house on the market now. I think we should wait a while. He has already started collecting boxes and packing up his stuff. Do you think he is planning to leave me?

Signed,
Worried in NY

Abbys answer :
Dear Worried in NY,
I doubt it. He wants to move back into the White House as much as you do.

Smile Damnit!

Sen. Obama is looking for a VP but he doesn't have the nomination.

Let's assume that both Senators Clinton and Obama can hold every state that John Kerry won. That gives each of them 252 EC votes to start with and 18 more to get.

The Quinnipiac poll today shows that Sen. Clinton would win both Ohio (20 EC votes) and Florida (27 EC votes) over Sen. McCain while Sen. Obama would lose those states. That makes Sen. Clinton pretty much a slam dunk to win in the general election as of today.

Sen. Obama on the other hand would have to patch together 18 EC votes from Nevada (5), Colorado (9), New Mexico (5), Iowa (7), and Virginia (13). He thinks he can put Georgia in play but I don't think so, not even with former Sen. Sam Nunn on the ticket.

I think he has a good shot at taking Iowa. That's 7 of the 18.

I don't know about Virginia. Bush took the state by an 8% margin in 2004. Can the black vote and a Virginian on the ticket do it for him there? Maybe. It's the biggest possible prize for him at 13 EC votes. The downside here is that the possible running mates are young and would compete with Michelle for the nomination eight years out. Don't tell me she isn't thinking about that already.

If he gets Iowa and Virginia, he would be across the finish line. If he doesn't get Virginia, he needs two of the three remaining swing states: New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado.

Bill Richardson couldn't deliver New Mexico for John Kerry. Could he do it for Obama?

I don't know about Nevada, which Bush won by a 3% margin and Colorado, which Bush won by a 5% margin.

What I do know is that Sen. Obama would have to fight a multi-front war while Sen. Clinton would not. Ask any general what their preference would be.

Sen. Obama could also try to take Ohio by offering the VP job to Gov. Strickland. But Sen. Clinton can do the same thing and Gov. Strickland campaigned for her. He brings the same downside to both candidates. If Sen. Clinton does not name a black running mate, she risks alienating blacks. If Sen. Obama does not name a female running mate, he risks alienating women.

These two need each other on a joint ticket. Hate and love are a continuum of the same emotion so maybe they will figure it out. Former Pres. Clinton apparently already has. Michelle Obama might not come around but I hope she thinks about it. She's young; she can wait 16 years to be President.

That's how it stands today. If I were a superdelegate, I would either take the surer bet today, Sen. Clinton, or wait to see how it stands at the end of the August.

I like Mitt. He solves McCain's conservative problem, he had business credm and he did universal health insurance in Massachusetts. They would be a good duo.

My guess is that Obama tries to find someone who help fill holes in his base but will be too old to compete with Michelle for the nomination eight years from now. And looses the general to McCain/Romney.

"I won't show Sen. Clinton any disrespect by declaring victory [because I have not secured the nomination and the Q poll says that I can't win Ohio or Florida] but I will start a top-secret search for a VP [that will be leaked to all MSM outlets immediately]."

-- Barack Obama (from the left and right sides of his mouth)

But will the Dems REALLY nominate a guy who can't take Ohio or Florida? That didn't work out so well with John Kerry. Today's swing state polls:

Home> Institutes and Centers> Quinnipiac University Polling Institute> Presidential Swing States (FL, OH & PA)> Release Detail

May 22, 2008 - McCain Leads Obama In Two Of Three Key Swing States, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; Clinton Has Big Leads In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania --- FLORIDA: Clinton 48 - McCain 41; McCain 45 - Obama 41; OHIO: Clinton 48 - McCain 41; McCain 44 - Obama 40: PENNSYLVANIA: Clinton 50 - McCain 37; Obama 46 - McCain 40